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Love the decepticrons grats on the win.

Congrats on the win.
There were a lot of beautiful armies shown in the pics. I think your paint jobs were amongst the best, if not THE best. I am certain that the fact that you scratch build every tank and had so much custom modeling on every model is what put you over the top.

Eric

Well done on the win, it was deserved (and exceptional, some of that competition looks great as well).

I didn't realise just how massive those Russes were until that shot with the Tau piranhas driving into the gunline. I can just see them cruising along thinking happy thoughts, and then a huge 'oh Crap!' as they see the armoured might of Vostroya round the corner...

How did the tournament go game-wise?

And ideas on what's up next project-wise?

Again, congrats on the win.

Thanks guys! Appreciate it very much.

@MagickalMemories: I agree with you, competition was very stiff, especially when there are Display boards. But the intense converted proved to be game-changing.

If anyone is interested in the voting scores:

IG: 24
Tau/Eldar: 13
Eldar: 10
Marines: 9

@Paradigm: The Russ turrets are pretty massive indeed. Gaming wise? lol.. 4 defeats and 1 draw .
The Army was just to ''recreational'' for a Grand Tournament hehe, but that doesn't mean I didn't have great games!
Next project? probably gonna pick up some older projects. Thinking of Eldar the most.

Catachan. CATACHAN. PLEASE,

You should consider making Eldar exodites.
Consider using cold ones as jetbikes and perhaps a dragon as a Night Spinner or Fire Prism... The canvas to work on the idea is pretty wide.

Loving this whole plog, subbed so I don't lose it when you move on to the next army

I'm getting army requests now eh? haha.
Catachans aren't gonna happen. I've seen enough Guard for a long time now, and sorry, but catachans aren't my cup of tea exactly. But that's what we have you for Beeb! Filling the void called catachan armies!

Exodites then? Cold ones with eldar riders has been done to death I guess. Would be a pretty intense project making that interesting.. Plus I already have a ''normal'' eldar army.
and I'm not the kind of guy that makes 2 armies from the same codex.

@Radu: Don't know if I will post the next project on this thread, since I already have an Eldar thread lying around..
But if I do, I will make sure there will be a link to it anyway!

P.s. Just noticed you are from a place called Kettering.. Guess you don't wanna know what the word 'Ketter' means in Dutch..

v_v,,,,i might just have to do another Catachan army and paint it in your style then.......

What about a "counts as" ORk stormboy army using the guard codex? Heavy weapon teams and all....could be cooooooooool......

Or how about a futuristic lizardman/dinosaur army like Turok...Dinosaurs with headgears and eyepieces and fricken lasers,,,???

Ideas, Ideas!

No, you better finish the Kroot Rebellion first!

 Develain wrote:
I'm getting army requests now eh? haha.

Since everyone else is doing it...

Chaos Space Marines would be an excellent opportunity for you to put your exceptional scratch building skills to use, with tanks, walkers, etc.
Chaos Daemons would give you an opportunity to show what you can do with Daemon conversions.
An allied mix of both would let you show off BOTH talents.

 Develain wrote:
P.s. Just noticed you are from a place called Kettering.. Guess you don't wanna know what the word 'Ketter' means in Dutch..

Well, I do NOW.

Eric

Okay, I don't know what your opinions are with fantasy armies, BUT you could make a Lizardmen army themed with ancient chinese warriors, and could include some creative terracotta skinks or saurus... gamewise they could be used as Tomb King allies with perhaps a Skink High-Priest animating statues to help the fight.
a Slann as an old and wise monk would also look cool.

You probably won't do it, but I'm just throwing the idea out there..

 Develain wrote:


P.s. Just noticed you are from a place called Kettering.. Guess you don't wanna know what the word 'Ketter' means in Dutch..

That's pretty cool, been heretic-ing since I was 4 I think I was actually thinking it would be something much worse......

I already have a Chaos marine army. And even if I would expand the Thousand Sons, I got no concrete ideas for that.

Think I am going for Eldar skimmers this year, but more on that later..

As for scratchbuilding.. I am really considering making master models of things I've made last couple of years and start casting them. Maybe even kickstarter it. But those are future plans

@Radu: hahaha nice one!

Maybe you should try Orks. Your almost cartoony painting style and incredible talent with scratch-building and conversions would go a long way with da boyz and all of da veehekullz they use.

Ik zeg Tau, zonder twijfel...

With your style... you'd totally be able to rock the anime feel of Tau...

I would like to see you do Eldar / Dark Eldar.
I can see an interesting contrast of Light and Dark colours in your style.

I think you should post pics of all your armies, so we don't request stuff you've already done.

 mars2024 wrote:
I think you should post pics of all your armies, so we don't request stuff you've already done.

Agreed.

We can also oogle at your awesome work

Well, you can click my name and check out some of my older projects

13 images is not enough (and not all that you've posted here anyway - where do you link to?)

Oh, I meant older threads of mine.

Im glad you won that award. If you had lost i would've been angry and said there was no justice in the world. Seeing that you won i shall nod me head silently and enjoy your amazing work.

Here is a sneak peak of what's coming up next:

Touching up some older Eldar:




Don't know if I should revive my older Eldar thread, or just use this one for all my 40k stuff in the future. Hmmm

V/E is for everything?

Awesome. The looking at that, the Eldar are going to be an army that completely fits your very unique style. New thread or old, I'm looking forward to this (and that's from a complete non-eldar-fan).

Some more Eldar:





And a Wave serpent I am touching up, to give it a little more schwung. Needs more runes and schenanigans:

Wow, the highlighting on that Fire Dragon is phenomenal. The freehand on both that and the tank is also great.

Thanks!

Here is a somewhat army picture of the Vostroyans being displayed im my Flgs:

An honor it must be to have your very own army put in a glass display case for all of the common folk to behold!